Kinky Boots, The Musical

I attended the performance of Kinky Boots on opening night with a friend. The music, dancing, costumes (especially the boots!) and the story-line combine to make Kinky Boots fun, entertaining and uplifting.

Don’t know much about Kinky Boots?

The original production of Kinky Boots premiered in 2012. It then made its Broadway debut in 2013 and that year went on to win six Tony Awards – including Best Musical.

The music and lyrics were written by Cyndi Lauper who also won a Tony Award for Best Score. This was Lauper’s first attempt as a Broadway songwriter.

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The songs range from ballads such as “Not My Fathers Son” and “Hold Me In Your Heart” to rousing numbers such as “Sex Is In The Heel” and “Raise You Up/Just Be”.

The musical is based on the 2005 British film Kinky Boots, which in turn was inspired by an episode on a British documentary television series. The episode followed the true story of a man who decided to produce fetish footwear for men in order to save his family’s shoe factory.

Kinky Boots, the musical, tells the story of Charlie Price who inherits from his father the family business – a shoe factory that has been in family for generations. The business is struggling and close to bankruptcy. Charlie is determined to save the business.

Charlie and Lola – a cross-dressing club performer/singer with a taste for the flamboyant – meet and Charlie can’t help but notice the deficiency of the high-heeled boots worn by Lola and her “angels” (backup dancers).

Without giving away the ins and outs of the plot (in case you have not seen the movie) let’s just say that the family shoe factory, which had previously produced sensible shoes for men, shifts production to high-heeled boots that appeal to a certain “kinky” niche market.

Charlie and Lola – who both have complex feelings about their fathers – also discover they are not so different.

The uplifting end of the musical takes place on a catwalk at a footwear show in Milan where Charlie’s new line of kinky boots is successfully showcased by Lola and the angels (among others) to the tune of “Raise You Up/Just Be”. A fitting end to a fun evening.

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